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Corduroy Media
Corduroy Media: Documentary storytelling that partners with clients to craft inspiring, visually stunning videos.
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Corduroy Media: Documentary storytelling that partners with clients to craft inspiring, visually stunning videos.
Corduroy Media in Oakland specializes in documentary-style video production. Clients praise its energy, creativity, and collaborative approach—from proposal to final cut. The team educates itself on the subject matter before filming, listens closely, respects budgets, and delivers beautiful, moving videos that educate, inspire, and feel authentic.
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Create moving and inspirational videos that tell untold stories with emotional depth and educational value.
Produce professional videos for marketing, communications, and outreach that align with brand goals and engage audiences.
Collaborate on project goals, budget, and creative direction to push boundaries and achieve exceptional outcomes.
Handle all aspects from pre-production planning to filming and post-production for seamless, high-quality results.
Work as an extension of your team, listening to feedback and ensuring projects reflect your expertise and vision.
Overall rating
Tim Heaney
Eleanor Davis
If I could give more stars, I would. I recently worked with Corduroy on two separate documentary-style video series. Both projects involved challenging and complicated content, quick timelines, and a lot of creative problem solving. Corduroy blew me out of the water with their energy, enthusiasm, creativity, and their willingness to educate themselves and become deeply familiar with our programming and the subject matter before the process had even begun. Not only that, but they were incredible listeners - always genuinely asking for and receiving feedback, and looking to me and my team as the experts on the subject matter of the videos. Working with Corduroy felt like a real creative partnership in a way that it hasn't always with other video production companies I've worked with. And, to top it all off, they are wildly talented. The videos they produced for us are incredibly beautiful - the footage is gorgeous, they hit all the perfect key points, and the videos are educational and effective at teaching as much as they are inspiring and moving. The team is a joy to work with and talented to boot - can't recommend them highly enough!
Tiffani Chan
From the proposal stage to the final video, everyone at Corduroy were great to work with. We couldn't trust them more with producing a video that would evoke the emotions and motivation from our audience to learn more about our outreach programs. Brandon, our Producer and Director was fantastic throughout the project and we are so pleased with how he and his team transformed the untold stories of our participants into a moving and inspirational video. We definitely hope there will be more opportunities to collaborate again in the near future!
Alex
I've worked with this San Francisco video production company on several higher-ed projects and have been extremely happy with both the process and the end product. Corduroy goes above and beyond to ensure projects are successful. They are also a pleasure to collaborate with and bring a level of passion and professionalism to projects that is truly profound.
Autumn Casadonte
Carl and his team are top-notch. From the first call to discuss strategy and goals, to "shoot day "to the end-product, they are professional and consistently exceed expectations. Their crew is both knowledgeable and warm, able to interact with employees and execs at all levels to get the best genuine comments and reactions for an organic result that is both visually stunning and authentic. Where I oversee corporate communications, they're our go-to external video resource and we continue to be impressed with what they deliver.
Heffernan Ins
Our marketing department partnered with Corduroy for a few video projects after finding their work online. Their team took the time to listen to our needs (including our budget) and understand our brand/image, our audience, and our goals. Not only were we happy with the outcome, but Corduroy pushed us outside our comfort zone to create something we never could have envisioned or executed on our own had we continued to play it safe. Trusting their creative prowess really paid off for our business, and working with them was a pleasure for our whole team from start to finish. We hope to continue this relationship in the future on other endeavors.
